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Alert 5 » New movie on No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron to debut in September - Military Aviation News

New movie on No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron to debut in September

A new movie based on the exploits of No. 303 Polish Fighter Squadron during the Battle of Britain will make its way to theaters in September. It is Scottish filmmaker David Blair’s first war feature and stars Iwan Rheon from Game of Thrones.

And who can ever forget Michael Caine "Shut up in Polish"

Must say, the CGI artists should spend a little more time watching the War in the Air series.

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Originally Posted by Pontius Navigator (Post 10203722)

And who can ever forget Michael Caine "Shut up in Polish"
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I much prefer Barry Foster's version.

By that time in the film I think Michael Caine had already exited the narrative.

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Originally Posted by Lookleft (Post 10203743)

By that time in the film I think Michael Caine had already exited

Guilty as charged. Guess I will have to brave Section Officer Harvey once again.

Alas PN she would only have her way with pilots.

Unfortunately Section Officer Harvey is no longer with us as she is now flying with the angels, God Bless her.

Must admit PN the CGI leaves a lot to be desired. IMHO 303 deserves an awful lot better. It should not be forgotten that 303 were the top scoring squadron in the Battle of Britain.

The OH was OC Admin at Northolt, and was tasked with looking after the good old Polish boys during their annual memorial service at the Polish War Memorial. What a bunch of old smoothies!! And what a huge bouquet of flowers she received from them!!

Mammoth respect to 303 and the rest of those VERY angry pilots who had lost their countries thanks to Messrs Hitler and Stalin.

And to the many who became bus drivers flying baby navs around in the Varsity or the fun job on the Meteor.

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Originally Posted by Pontius Navigator (Post 10205000)

And to the many who became bus drivers flying baby navs around in the Varsity or the fun job on the Meteor.

And the few really good guys who became ATCOs :)

A couple of years after the Velvet Revolution, we took a VC10K to Hradec Kralove in the Czech Republic for a static display. On the first public day, we noticed a number of elderly gents in rather ancient RAF uniforms sitting in a VIP enclosure. They waved us over and we found out that they were survivors of WW2 who'd escaped to Britain to fly against the Nazis. Fascinating old chaps; whilst we were chatting a youngish fellow in a civilian suit asked us if we'd like a drink from the amply stocked bar. Of course we did, then asked one of the old chaps who he was "Him? Top Boss of Czech Air Force. Good guy!" he told us. The old chaps had many interesting tales to tell, but we had to say our thanks and get back to our aircraft.

There was an amazing hangar party afterwards - the invitation card from the Commander-in-Chief of the Czech Air Force stated that there would be food and drink, folk dancing, a beauty competition...and a striptease show! All of which happened, although some Victor groundcrew idiot insisted on using a squadron patch to demonstrate the velcro effect... The girl smiled sweetly though.

I can just see The Sun headlines if the same thing had happened in the UK and Air Chief Marshal Sir Hardly-Worthitt had issued visiting aircrew and groundcrew with an invite to a strip show....

… and the few who flew to train us wanabe ATCOs and their remarkable 'survival scramble' during a minival:D